The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-06

balcony. The call for Foote could hrst be
hardly DISTINGUISHED, but as the audience
greater force and for two or three min
utes the hall rang with the demand for Mr. Foote's
appearance gentleman cams to the fronto Of
the stage but the greeting intended for the an
thor overwhelmed him, and he speedily retired,
to return again. when the applause seemed to
acquire new force. The gentleman was not MIR.
Foote, but he wanted to know il he was In the
hall He did not respond. The same enthusi-
asm was manifested when "Messe Soleneiie was
rendered. TIE audience then for the hrst time
heard the solos and chorus, and, after showing
the warmest appreciation of the artistic worth
of the performance, began to call for Quicken.
the author. From lower floor to balcony and
balcony TO loower floor again his name resound-
ed. and when he arose from his seat
IN the audience TO bow his acknowledgements
it was not enough. The applause continued until
he went TO the stage and there repeated his recog
milton of the praise given him. The selections
from Tempest music. by Van der Stucken,
won an ovation for the orchestral leader. So it
continued throughout the evening. each number
bringing plaudits after paudits. In the singing
in connection with Dudley Bucks festival over
ture. 1.-THE Star-spangled Banner" the enthusi-
asm reached its climax. At signal from the
conductor the audience joined in singing the last
verse; 1t fitting finale to the American
composers evening.
The audience. one that enjoyed music because
of musics worth, was largely COMPOSED of young
people, although those who have recolections of
musical events of thirty and forty years ago
were we'll represented. Another feature of il
was the presence of family parties, among whom
were those of Volney T. Malott John Il. Stew
art, Mrs. Robertson with all the ladies of the
Musicale. ex Governor Porter, Senator Harrison,
Franklin Ianders. A. C. Harris w. II. Cakins,
John C. Wright, W. j. Holiday, E. B. Martin
dale L. S Ayres, DR.. II. r Allen, W. H. Tai
bott and DR.. Charles E. Wright. In other parts
of the balcony Henry Fraser and lady.
VIM. Mansur and wife, NJ H. Spades and wife,
Mrs. j. Fl. Farquar and family. Geo: F. Adams
and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Jison, MIR. and Mrs.
7. P. Heughey, Mr. and Mrs. Schuyler Haugh-
ey, Col Oran Perry and wife, accompanied by
Miss Mary Mendenhall. of Richmond; Mrs. Jo-
~ Mr~o aba AID
Oliver T. Morton; w. E. c. Colt. Mr.. and Mrs.
De W. Hooper, NJ. G. McLain and Miss Vajen. Mr..
and Mrs Lindley Vinton, Mr. and Mrs w j.
Craig, Mr.. e. @. Cornelius and daughter. The
reserved scat lists for to night and tomorrow
large, which insures brilliant audiences for
the remaining nights of the festival.
The concert was one of the most inn
portant we'll the most interesting
ever given in this country. Nor did it owe this
distinction to the writings of foreign writers. OF
whom there were several on the programme, al
though these. also. were excellent. For the best
pieces, those which gave most promise and those
which were the cleverest in their actually
present condition were those of the pure
~ American writer's Buck and Paine,
and the piano-forte rhapsody of the young
Huss. New York boy, and Van der Stucken.
the director. There good reasons. more
over, for giving a concert of this kind; and
other good reasons for making it gala occasion.
1t is distinctly discreditable with the general
public, thin gs go, for a musical composer to
live in America. 1t IS way OF testlfy1ng the
dilemma, either that artistic success would have
been impossible for him in Europe, that
the financial considerations of a speciously
American kind made him willing to give up the
cultured atmosphere of Europe Both horns of the
dilemma are fatal-the box office being arbiter.
Against this shoddy assumption of the unwrit-
ten code the concert of last evening was pro-
test, for both classes here referred to were rep
resented in it
Of those born and educated abroad, but now
resident among us, were the composers Quicken.
the genial link uniting us to those latest
gifted men who have added to their native
American ideas only the foreign elements of in
struction, study and recognition of model
The programme opened with Arthur Foote's
overture "1n the Mountains" This Interesting
work betrays the composite nature of its pro-
duction 1t is if we had Mendelssohniau
ideas instrumented after Wagnerian prece-
dents. The melodic ideas. several of them at
least, are Mendessohnian even to the mannerism
of the great Leipsic coterie, Mendiessohn David
and Schunann, and Otto Singer, the genial old
director of Cincinnati who. by the way, ought to
have come forward when called for last night.
Both these in their several degrees are composers
of ability. Shading off degree further towards
patriotism we have Van der Stucken and Huss
of German blood. but American birth and afflla-
tion. From this again, one degree brings
to the purely American com
posers Foote Paine and Buck
of leaning up" against six-fve chord upon
every convenient occasion-just pussy cat
merely from innate sentiment The form OF
this overture was not unlike that of Mendels-
sohn's "Rondo Capriccioso." In the grave intro
duction there charming second theme,
enunciated by horns-a veritable melody, such
forms to the nearer of modern orchestral
called s.the blsst and the ntelligible"
smiling out of a desert of quicksands and the
matte motivation. These, however, are tech
nicalities let pass to the points that interest
all who fhave ears to hearr-that pregnant limi-
tation of gospels now and ever.
Foote's overture made great success. At
the end of 1t there was tumutuous applause,
and many calls for the composer. Not having
foreseen such popularity, the prophet was with
out the official mantle of evening dress, where-
upon he fed to the wilderness of the corridors,
whence he could Eot thoroughbred.
The second number the third part of
Dulckens Solemn Mass. The composition Is
interesting and effective. 1t is not all off the
same piece; but bits of German harmony jostle
against indubtabe Italian opera, while Gre
gorian cadences endeavor to sanctify the means
to ends. In this piece the chorus came out
strong in the Latin enunciation already COM
mended. This. indeed, praseworthy, but
it wrong. ''sanc-tues." with the accent
the second syllable The number also had a
pleasing tenor solo, the verbal nature of which
is lost in conjecture; and a pretty "Agnus
Del" for soprano solo at first, afterwards for
quartet and chorus. The Instrumentation of
this. and indeed of all parts of the mass
The closing choruses upon the bona Nobis"
effectively handled, and this work,
its sacred quality s to the contrary
applause and calls for the composer. The call,
this time was successful, and the blushing mas
ter appeared upon the stage to receive the hon.
ors due his praiseworthy effort
Cleverest of all the pieces in the first part of
the programme was Van der Stucken's Tempest
music, of which two selections were given. They
not named upon the programme, as they
ought rightfully to have BEEN in consequence Of
which appreciative nearer runs modl-
cum of risk in attempting to identify
the various representations intended. Later iu-
qury, however, ELECTED the information that the
first selection was the Chorus of Reapers," the
march which Prospero causes to before
Miranda and Ferdinand, and the second the
suit of Caliban. Both are of the quality of bal
let music. The first in waltz tempo, the
second sort of bacchanale Both were done
admirably, and both were extremely well played.